After taking a nearly 20-cent dip earlier this week, Nova Scotia gas prices rose by eight cents on Friday.
In Halifax, the minimum price for regular, self-serve unleaded gasoline is now 171.1 cents per litre. Gas prices in the Cape Breton area are the most expensive, with a minimum price of 173 cents a litre.
Last Saturday — one day after the price of gas had already gone down by nine cents during the scheduled Friday price change — the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board invoked the interrupter clause to lower the price of gas by another 10 cents.
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The clause allows the board to adjust fuel prices outside of the weekly price change.
Gas prices have seen a lot of fluctuation in recent months amid supply chain disruptions and changing demand.
New Brunswick saw a decline in gas prices this week, with the maximum price for regular self-serve gas now at 174.9 cents per litre.
And those in P.E.I. are paying the highest price in the Maritimes, with a minimum price per litre of 179.1 cents.